Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- IT, Software, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop open-source features, work on backend systems, and enhance developer documentation while closely interacting with the community to implement their ideas.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As an Open Source Engineer at NetBird, you'll focus on building and shipping features for the open-source community, especially homelabbers, self-hosters, and technical power users.
- This is a hands-on, builder role.
- You'll spend most of your time writing code, talking to the community and experimenting with features that make NetBird more useful, flexible, and fun to run in real-world setups.
- You will:
- Build and ship open-source features used by homelabbers and self-hosters.
- Work across the stack to improve self-hosting, local deployments and community-driven use cases.
- Pick up ideas directly from GitHub issues, discussions, and community feedback and turn them into working code.
- Improve developer experience, docs, examples and setup flows for OSS users.
- Review and collaborate on community pull requests as a peer, not a gatekeeper.
- Maintain and improve tooling around local dev, Docker, Kubernetes, and self-hosted environments.
- Experiment with new ideas, integrations, and workflows that make NetBird easier to hack on.
- Help keep NetBird approachable, hackable, and fun for contributors.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- We're looking for an Open Source Engineer who combines deep technical leadership with a passion for open-source collaboration.
- Must-Haves:
- Strong understanding of backend systems, APIs, and distributed architectures.
- Ability to make and communicate architectural and technical decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- A community-first mindset and belief in open development.
- Nice-to-Haves:
- Vertrautheit mit Netzwerktechnik, Sicherheit oder Zero Trust-Architekturen.
- Public GitHub profile with meaningful contributions.
Experience
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with strong full-stack capabilities.
- Experience building, maintaining, or leading open-source projects.
- Proven experience leading technical initiatives.
- Experience with frontend technologies and developer-facing UIs.
- Experience with Go, TypeScript, React, or similar modern stacks.
- Strong experience with unit and integration testing principles.
- Experience managing roadmaps and technical direction.
- Experience in growing developer communities.
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What we offer
- We want you to do meaningful work and be proud of what you build.
- That's why we offer:
- Competitive compensation with salary and equity.
- Hybrid work model between our Berlin office and remote.
- High-impact role shaping both product and community.
- Real technical ownership of a global open-source platform.
- Direct influence on NetBird's architecture and roadmap.
- A strong engineering culture built around transparency and collaboration.
- Karriereentwicklung, da NetBird zu einem führenden Open-Source-Sicherheitsunternehmen wird.
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NetBird
NetBird GmbH is a software company based in Berlin that focuses on innovative network security. Their platform provides a user-friendly solution that replaces traditional VPN methods with WireGuard and peer-to-peer technology. The company targets teams of all sizes with the aim of making secure private networks simpler and more accessible.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Open Source Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
